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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Aphra Behn
Like a squirrel in a cage, always in action.Belch … as loud as a Musket.Chaste as angels are.Cold … As a young nun the day she is envested.Common as the air.Cupids are like cooks of the camp, they can roast or boil a woman.The fresh roses on your cheeks shall die,
Like flowers that wither in the shade.Dropt like a rose o’er-blown.Faithless … as the winds.Fickle … as the winds.Fixt—like conscious guilt.Free as wanton winds.Free, as a young calf, from sorrow.Free as whispering air.Gentle as a love-sick maid.Marrying … ’tis like going a long voyage to sea, where after a while even the calms are distasteful, and the storms dangerous: one seldom sees a new object, ’tis still a deal of sea, sea; husband, husband, every day,—till one’s quite cloy’d with it.Restless … as the winds.Sad as death.Sad as the groans of dying innocence.Silent as the growth of flowers.He looks as sullenly as a routed general.Sweat like Cits in May-day Coaches.Wits, like Physicians, never can agree,
When of a different Society.
